Vanderveer Estates Quotes & Sayings

Benny the Clown had torn open the man's abdominal cavity, his claws cradling several loops of glistening intestines. But rather than gorging on them, the clown was stretching and pulling the bloody loops, twisting the organ into knots. Familiar knots.
'Is that ... a flamingo?' asked the old woman. — Blake Crouch

Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't need watching, and so we don't. But I will tell you this: the loss is entirely ours. — Bill Bryson

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time! — Paul Wesley

Character displays the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood. — Nathan McCall

I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread. — Jennifer McMahon

I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other. — Penn Jillette

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance. — John Ortberg

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

A small whimper escaped her throat, then she desperately pulled her eyes away. — Steven Erikson

I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole. — Maureen Johnson

As far as I'd seen, most adults tried to pretend they didn't have parents. Except my shrink, who'd tried to invite me for Christmas dinner last year. As if I wanted to be trapped next to a huge turkey carcass with twenty people I didn't know. Twenty strangers who all knew exactly who I was. — Meghan Ciana Doidge